Search.yourinstantweather.com

Posted by Max Lehmann on February 1, 2016

What is Search.yourinstantweather.com?

Search.yourinstantweather.com is a search engine that will replace your default search engine and modify the New Tab page after you install the extension called Your Instant Weather. This piece of software is available for download on its official website yourinstantweather.com; however, we cannot guarantee that you will not find it anywhere else. Unfortunately, some users even find the presence of Search.yourinstantweather.com surprising, so we can assume that it comes in a bundle with other programs too. If you have not added this extension yourself too, get rid of it immediately. In fact, it would be best to do that even if you have downloaded and installed it yourself. This is especially true if you want to set another search engine and seek to protect your system from harm. Further in this article we will explain you how to eliminate this extension, so make sure that you read it attentively. test test test

How does Search.yourinstantweather.com act?

At first glance, Search.yourinstantweather.com really looks like a decent search engine. First of all, it allows users to search for the information like other ordinary search providers. Secondly, it offers direct links to web pages where users can check the weather forecast. Even though Search.yourinstantweather.com might seem to be a useful search engine, we still suggest being careful with it because it is known that it redirects all the searches to extsearch.maxwebsearch.com before providing users with Yahoo! search results. Unfortunately, this means that you might see the sponsored content. Specialists have managed to find out that this sponsored content usually appears in the form of various links and advertisements. They might lead to unreliable third-party web pages, which suggests that the possibility of infecting the system with malicious software and experiencing other privacy and security-related problems is rather high.

It has been also observed that Search.yourinstantweather.com will collect information about users. Luckily, it is not going to touch personal details if we believe the information provided in its Privacy Policy:

Your Instant Weather™ does not, generally, track or maintain personally identifiable information about consumers that use our Services

If we take into account non-personally identifiable information, Search.yourinstantweather.com is going to record URLs you visit, details about your search activity (search queries in particular), ads you tend to click on, and other relevant details. Unfortunately, the collected information might be shared with third-party applications in order to offer you “more customized information, advertising and services.” If you do not want to reveal anything to anyone, get rid of Search.yourinstantweather.com.

We suggest that you eliminate the extension which sets Search.yourinstantweather.com also because it wants that you give it all kinds of rights, for example, it wants to be able to read and change your data on the websites you visit, read and change browsing history, and, finally, manage your downloads and applications. This is really strange, and we do not really know why it needs these rights. As there is a huge possibility that the Your Instant Weather extension will act somehow undesirably, we suggest that you delete it as soon as possible.

Where does Search.yourinstantweather.com come from?

As you already know, you see Search.yourinstantweather.com on your Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers because you have installed a particular extension. It is available on its official website, but we still believe that it might come bundled in malicious software installers too. We think so because many users say that they have not installed the extension themselves, but still see the presence of Search.yourinstantweather.com. People who want to protect their systems from undesirable software have to install security software because it is really hard to protect the system from harm.

How to delete Search.yourinstantweather.com?

Search.yourinstantweather.com will disappear from browsers after you remove the Your Instant Weather extension. You can go to the Add-ons Manage, find the extension, and erase it, or you can reset your browsers. If you prefer to eliminate this suspicious search engine automatically, use an automatic malware remover, e.g. SpyHunter. Search.yourinstantweather.com will be gone after you scan your system with this tool once.